[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster 2020.10 text installer ISO Wow!!!!

[Andreas Wacknitz]

Am 04.03.21 um 17:30 schrieb cretin1997 via openindiana-discuss:
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> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 10:43 PM, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, this is another example of poor QC of the release ISO image. How hard is it to verify that all the libraries needed in single user mode are actually installed? A shell script to do that should be an integral part of the process for building an ISO image.
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> Unrelated but it's an interesting piece of information. Illumos still depends on proprietary closed source tools from the Sun's era to build itself. Check the documents about how to build illumos-gate, it's still needs onbld.
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Volunteers are welcome to change that!
Open Indiana is an open source OS without any commercial support. We are
only a very few (read < 10) people actively maintaining it. We all have
our day jobs, typically
unrelated to OI or illumos (exceptions exist). The common basis,
illumos, is of course mostly developed by companies. But they are mostly
focused on doing things for
their customers. Desktop systems are not being used there, as far as I know.

So, instead of telling us what we should fix for you, you should start
fixing things for yourself. That's what we are doing for us and that's
how community projects should work.
Our repositories are all openly accessible. We also have some
documentation on how to get started. So you can start immediately.
And if your are not able to install OI on your bare metal you can run it
on most hypervisors, eg. I am running one "build machine" on Proxmox.